Doctor Burnout, International Doctors. June 19, 2020, Part 1
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🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Science Friday. I'm Iroflato. A bit later in the hour, job burnout in health care workers. |
| 0:06.8 | We'll talk about taking care of the people who are taking care of us. But first, there's still a lot we don't know about COVID-19. |
| 0:15.1 | And doctors are finding recovered patients aren't always out of the woods after they beat the infection. |
| 0:21.3 | We're just learning about the long-term complications inflicting some of the survivors. |
| 0:26.9 | Here to talk about that and other science stories from the week is Umer Erfan, a staff |
| 0:31.7 | writer at Vox in Washington. |
| 0:33.6 | Welcome back, Umair. |
| 0:35.4 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:36.6 | Let's start with a story you reported for Vox, and that's a second round of COVID-19 lockdowns |
| 0:42.4 | might not work as well as the first time around. |
| 0:46.2 | Why is that? |
| 0:47.3 | Well, there are a number of reasons at play. |
| 0:48.9 | The big one is just that we're in a very different stage of the pandemic right now. |
| 0:52.8 | Back when the first lockdowns went into effect, we were seeing tens or dozens of cases per day in states, and now we're |
| 0:58.2 | seeing hundreds, if not thousands, of cases per day. So snapping those restrictions back |
| 1:02.6 | into a place would take a longer time for those numbers to start dropping again. The other factor |
| 1:07.7 | is that once you start locking people in place, there's a lot higher chance household transmission, basically, people transmitting it to people in their own families. |
| 1:15.7 | And there's also likely to be a fair amount more transmission among the essential workers. |
| 1:19.6 | So there's likely to be a longer time for this curve to come down. |
| 1:23.2 | And then finally, people are pretty tired. |
| 1:25.0 | I mean, they're fatigued by these measures, by having to wear masks or to, you know, keep social distance. And it's likely that people are not going to be as compliant this time around. |
| 1:34.2 | I know. Here in New York, we're barely getting out of the first lockdown. What places are considering a second round? |
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